Chris Priestly

Posted 22 December 2010 - 02:49 PM

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No the Signature Edition offer will not be available through Steam. The only digital source for the Signature Edition is the EA Store and already listed retailers. Physcial copies are available at all retailers.

Reight

Posted 22 December 2010 - 03:39 PM

Maria Caliban

Posted 22 December 2010 - 03:40 PM

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Chris Priestly wrote...

No the Signature Edition offer will not be available through Steam. The only digital source for the Signature Edition is the EA Store and already listed retailers. Physcial copies are available at all retailers.

Edit: Misspoke.

That's unfortunate but thank you for answering this. I had been holding off on preordering on the chance I might get it through Steam.

DVACDK

Posted 22 December 2010 - 03:56 PM

Reight

Posted 22 December 2010 - 03:57 PM

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Maria Caliban wrote...

What if Steam offered the regular edition of the same?

It's not about the game itself, but losing 20$ worth of "stuff" even though i would have pre-ordered the game on Steam kinda pisses me off.I mean ... to me Steam is not a store, but a platform the same as 360 and PS3. I bet console players would also be upset if something similiar happened to them.

DVACDK

Posted 22 December 2010 - 04:01 PM

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Reight wrote...

Maria Caliban wrote...

What if Steam offered the regular edition of the same?

It's not about the game itself, but losing 20$ worth of "stuff" even though i would have pre-ordered the game on Steam kinda pisses me off.I mean ... to me Steam is not a store, but a platform the same as 360 and PS3. I bet console players would also be upset if something similiar happened to them.

Or is this way of thinking too absurd?

Imo no, its not absurd, i pretty much buy all my games on Steam, cant remember when i last bought a Retail Box other then World of Warcraft.

Vincentdante

Posted 22 December 2010 - 04:21 PM

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Reight wrote...

Good news.This means I'll have more money to spend for a different game. Thanks!

Just be happy with the standard edition or are you honestly going to buy this for the freebies/extras > game? It's not like your getting screwed over this offer is LIMITED to certain companies to a certain date. There will be many places that won't do this offer.

Anyways I own DA:O on disk and was planning to get this on disk regardless so I am not affected. For steam users i'm sure the signature edition will be available at the extended price if you want it so don't panic yet

DanaScu

Posted 22 December 2010 - 04:48 PM

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Vincentdante wrote...

Reight wrote...

Good news.This means I'll have more money to spend for a different game. Thanks!

Just be happy with the standard edition or are you honestly going to buy this for the freebies/extras > game? It's not like your getting screwed over this offer is LIMITED to certain companies to a certain date. There will be many places that won't do this offer.

Anyways I own DA:O on disk and was planning to get this on disk regardless so I am not affected. For steam users i'm sure the signature edition will be available at the extended price if you want it so don't panic yet

Um...no, it won't.

Chris Priestly wrote...

No the Signature Edition offer will not be available through Steam. The only digital source for the Signature Edition is the EA Store and already listed retailers.

That is about a clear a statement of "No" as I've ever seen on the forums. And it does suck for anyone who wanted the game on Steam. If I was getting it, it would have been through Steam, just as I did for ME/ME2, DA:O and DA:Awakening. No access on Steam means 99.9% certainty that I won't be getting it at release, if ever. After seeing how "well" the EAloader/EAstore/EAsupport worked for ME et. al., I won't ever consider even thinking about the possibility of using it. I don't use D2D because of the patching/won't work with version x issues.

ralph2190

Posted 22 December 2010 - 05:19 PM

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Well, this was unexpected but thank you Chris for clarifying this. Obviously EA is having some serious jealousy issues.

DanaScu wrote...

That is about a clear a statement of "No" as I've ever seen on the forums. And it does suck for anyone who wanted the game on Steam. If I was getting it, it would have been through Steam, just as I did for ME/ME2, DA:O and DA:Awakening. No access on Steam means 99.9% certainty that I won't be getting it at release, if ever. After seeing how "well" the EAloader/EAstore/EAsupport worked for ME et. al., I won't ever consider even thinking about the possibility of using it. I don't use D2D because of the patching/won't work with version x issues.

How about getting it at retail? It won't be tied to any service and BioWare will post patches that we can install. It sucks that it won't be coming on Steam but the boxed copy would be the next best thing. I already have mine pre-ordered at Best Buy.

Zjarcal

Posted 22 December 2010 - 05:34 PM

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Thanks for the clarification, even if it's terrible news to say the least.
The worst part for me is that the EA Store, D2D, and Impulse have me region locked, hence I can't purchase from them. I do have Gametap.com as an alternative but I don't know how reliable it is.
This sucks badly. The worst part is that according to what Priestly said, it's the Signature Edition promo which won't be available, which means that the actual game could be released eventually on Steam...

darrylzero

Posted 22 December 2010 - 05:45 PM

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Can anyone clarify why they think this is happening? I've seen people post that EA doesn't like Steam, but why would that be? Does Steam somehow profit from the product in a way that either EA or Bioware thinks is unfair?

I recognize I'm not likely to get any kind of official response, but it just makes me curious. It's not a huge deal to me either way, though I would have bought on Steam otherwise.

Brockololly

Posted 22 December 2010 - 05:51 PM

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darrylzero wrote...

Can anyone clarify why they think this is happening? I've seen people post that EA doesn't like Steam, but why would that be? Does Steam somehow profit from the product in a way that either EA or Bioware thinks is unfair?

I have no clue, but it is very odd since Steam is the biggest digital distribution source. Steam/Valve profit in some way like any other retailer would, but it would seem something is going on with EA and Steam since they only put Hot Pursuit on Steam several weeks after it launched and you have EA games like Dead Space 2 coming out at the end of January which aren't available for preorder.

And yet EA announced today their retail partnership with Valve to distribute Portal 2 at retail. And its not like the SE isn't available at other digital disribution places either. It doesn't seem to make much sense really. Unless Valve is taking some huge chunk out of the preorder or something, it seems incredibly odd that EA wouldn't put DA2 SE up for preorder on the biggest digital distribution platform.

Obviously EA wants to push their own Digital download service as they'd make pure profit that way, but it makes no sense to not push DA2 on Steam, when other services besides EA's has it too.